Clint Eastwood To Make Film about Capt. Sully Sullenberger

Flying Magazine ^ | Jun 04, 2015 | Stephen Pope

[KeyLargo]

Clint Eastwood To Make Film about Capt. Sully Sullenberger

By Stephen Pope / Published: Jun 04, 2015

Warner Bros. Pictures announced on Tuesday that the life story of Capt. Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger is coming to the big screen in a yet-to-be named motion picture that will be directed by none other than Clint Eastwood.

The film will be adapted from Sully's book, "Highest Duty: My Search for What Really Matters," co-written with Jeffery Zaslow.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Of course you would have to write Liam Neeson into the movie trying to stop a terrorist on board and they have to land in the East River.

[winner3000]

Clint Eastwood is one of the few who showcases real heroes in his movies. Liberals’ heroes are depraved individuals.

[cherry]

Ed Harris of the "right stuff"??....please no....

to make a believable picture you need someone who is genuinely conservative and patriotic.....

[Hulka]

Could explore what happened after the event and how one of the stewardesses all of a sudden has a deep fear of flying and can't even put on the uniform, let alone go into a jet. The Honorable Company of Air Pilots hosted in London the entire crew and bestowed them with honors but the lone dollars-in-my-eyes stewardess simply couldn't bear the thought of flying First Class to London with the rest of the crew and receiving a huge award. . .presented in Guildhall, no less.

[cherry]

probably can do it like the “Airport” movies...intertwine enough personalities of the passengers into the movie and I think it could be quite good.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Denzel...

His movie(Flight)was kind of a rip-off of an old Cliff Robertson movie called "The Pilot".

...without the inverted MD80 clown-show.

[spel_grammer_an_punct_polise]

Name of the movie? How about “Sully”? Duh!

[SJSAMPLE]

Yes.
Entertaining at times, but not very believable in character, actions or situations.

When I want a good clean and sober movie, I watch “Clean and Sober” (1988) with Michael Keaton.

He was crazy good in “Birdman”. So was everybody in that movie.

[SJSAMPLE]

But then they’re have to make Sully the terrorist.
What a twist!

[conservativejoy]

This will be some of Eastwood’s best work. I love how he makes movies about real American Heroes.

[ken5050]

That's been done superbly decades before..in"The High and The Mighty"...and that's still one of the best, most inspiring movie scores ever..

The Gimli Glider was a decent made-for-TV movie...The story that should have been made into a movie was the 1982 incident when a British Air 747, Speedbird 9, flew through a volcanic ash cloud ..265 souls on board..all FOUR engines died..crew did an awesome job..it didn't get much publicity..

[Buckeye McFrog]

Seems like Clint is trying to document the last vestiges of American Exceptionalism before the country is gone.

[Radagast the Fool]

I 2nd Neal McDonough.

[tophat9000]

Who will play him? Clint of course ant least for the ditching.. Sully was and old guy about to retire....I think you can make Clint look young enough to play old Sully/p>

[driftdiver]

Kevin Bacon?????

please no

[Karl Spooner]

Brad Pitt? You’d never know that he had a co-pilot either.

[KeyLargo]

AVIATION PING

[onedoug]

There’s a guy who’s looking to be fired, given the current administration.

[KeyLargo]

United States has the mightiest military in the world for now - and a POTUS that refuses to use it to defend us.

VIDEO

https://www.youtube.com/embed/T9sDxvsbsnA?feature=player_embedded

[onedoug]

Put a heck of a lot of aviation in there and I’ll go see it!